[Magdalen] neat comparisons

[Molly Wolf]

I don't know... The hot dog scene was good too.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Oct 16, 2014, at 3:10 PM, James Oppenheimer <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I LOVE the bedroom scenes.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Oh, James, I *love* that!  Still howling with laughter.  When Todd's mother
>> asks if Todd is there and he replies "Got is dead" OMG...a delightful play
>> on words!
>> 
>> +++
>> Grace & peace,
>> jon
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I agree with all this but it makes the Mystery of the Incarnation even
>> more
>>> wonderful!
>>> 
>>> Joe
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:35 AM, James Oppenheimer <
>>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I recalled this fascinating clip on Nietsche.  Enjoy. (or -- well,
>>> whatevuh
>>>> ...)
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5GFgulByuM
>>>> 
>>>> James W. Oppenheimer
>>>> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things
>>> better
>>>> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your
>>> time
>>>> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <
>> ichthys89 at comcast.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> interesting words today in "The  Writers Almanac"  .... considering
>> the
>>>>> ways this thread has been discussing stars and black holes...
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's the birthday of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (books by this
>>>>> author), born in the Prussian village of Röcken (1844). He was a
>>>>> philosopher who loved literature, and he experimented with different
>>>>> literary styles to express his philosophy. His most famous book, Thus
>>>> Spake
>>>>> Zarathustra (1883), describes a prophet who comes down from the
>>> mountains
>>>>> to teach people about the coming of a new kind of superman, but the
>>>> people
>>>>> he speaks to only ridicule and laugh at him.
>>>>> 
>>>>> He's perhaps best known for claiming that "God is dead," but most
>>> people
>>>>> forget that he actually said, "God is dead ... and we have killed
>> him!"
>>>> He
>>>>> thought that the absence of God from the world was a tragedy, but he
>>> felt
>>>>> that people had to accept that tragedy and move on. He wrote that God
>>> was
>>>>> like a star whose light we can see, even though the star died long
>> ago.
>>>>> Much of his philosophy is about how people might live in a world
>>> without
>>>>> God and without absolute morality. At the time of his death on August
>>> 25,
>>>>> 1900, almost no one had heard of him, but after his work was
>>> republished,
>>>>> it had a huge impact on the philosophers of the 20th century.
>>>>> 
>>>>> He said: "[W]e should consider every day lost on which we have not
>>> danced
>>>>> at least once."
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lynn
>>>>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I
>> have
>>>> not
>>>>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You
>> gave
>>>> me."
>>>>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing
>> the
>>>>> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the
>>> ladder
>>>> is
>>>>> leaning against the wrong wall.”
>>>>> 
>>>>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
>>>>> 
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:02 PM
>>>>> 
>>>>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] neat comparisons
>>>>> 
>>>>> I get pretty annoyed with the creationist types, but at the same
>> time
>>> I
>>>>>> pity them because their vision of God is so small. I don't worry too
>>>> much
>>>>>> about what or who may be "out there" either.  After all, if God made
>>> the
>>>>>> universe, God made them too in all their glorious forms, no matter
>> how
>>>>>> "non-glorious" they may seem to us. The psalmist said, "When I
>>> consider
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> heavens you have made, what is man that you are mindful of him?"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net
>>> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> David Strang:
>>>>>>> The real thing, as it unfolds year by year  is much more wonderful
>>> than
>>>>>>> Genesis.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Well said, David!
>>>>>>> Lynn
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I
>>> have
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You
>>> gave
>>>>>>> me."
>>>>>>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thomas Merton writes, "People may spend their whole lives climbing
>>> the
>>>>>>> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the
>>>> ladder
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> leaning against the wrong wall."
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 9:14 PM
>>>>>>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] neat comparisons
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> In a message dated 10/14/2014 7:41:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>>>>>> ichthys89 at comcast.net writes:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Knowing  more and more about our vast universe makes brings me
>> even
>>>>>>>> closer
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> the  concept of a loving God and God's  creations.
>>>>>>>> Lynn>>>>
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> There is this, and it's what keeps me going.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It also makes me cross to have so many in the USA, at least,
>>>>>>>> insist on the literal biblical creation stories as the only
>>>> acceptable
>>>>>>>> and "gospel" truth.  The real thing, as it unfolds year by year
>> is
>>>>>>>> much more wonderful than Genesis.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> David Strang.
>>